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The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:
The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

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Kenyans Discipline Democracy Against Wild Taxes

Posted By: adminon: June 28, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Civil society, DEMOCRACY, Kenya, President Ruto, TaxationNo CommentsViews:
Kenyans Discipline Democracy Against Wild Taxes

Kenyans are disciplining democracy, protesting taxation under the Williams Ruto administration. At some point during the week, the country has been basically shut down, right up to the legis... Read more

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Activists, Friends, Admirers to Memorialise Prof Abu Momoh, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem June 3rd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: CDD, Civil society, Pan-Africanism, Social movement, ‘Áfrican president’No CommentsViews:
Activists, Friends, Admirers to Memorialise Prof Abu Momoh, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem June 3rd, 2024

Activists, friends and admirers of the late Prof Abu Momoh as well as Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem have another opportunity to memorialise their departure. The memorial event for this year come... Read more

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ARDP Fires an Open Memo to 19 Northern Governors, Calls for Re-invention of Governance

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Civil society, Community involvement, Education, Infrastructure, Job creation initiatives, Joint Security Initiatives, Regional cooperation, Security reforms, UnemploymentNo CommentsViews:
ARDP Fires an Open Memo to 19 Northern Governors, Calls for Re-invention of Governance

Barely a week after a set of activists fired a warning note to President Tinubu and NASS leaders against Nigeria playing host to American and French military bases, a similar letter is landi... Read more

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NPSA Cracks Parliamentary or Presidential System of Government Question in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Civil society, Left, National Assembly, NPSA, Opposition. Substantive democracy, Parliamentary system, Presidential systemNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Cracks Parliamentary or Presidential System of Government Question in Nigeria

It is debating time again in Nigeria regarding the most appropriate system of government for the country. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) in whose intellectual sphere of in... Read more

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As NLC Steps Into Hardship Protests in Nigeria, Exposing President Tinubu’s Paradoxes

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Adams Smith, Bono, CD, Civil society, DA, Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s subsidy regime, Empire, Gramsci, NANS, NLC, Oxfam, SCON, The Economist, ‘Who Elected Oxfam?’No CommentsViews:
As NLC Steps Into Hardship Protests in Nigeria, Exposing President Tinubu's Paradoxes

Barring last minute cancellation or postponement or similar surprises, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) is rolling out its affiliates at last for a test of strength against the Tinubu admi... Read more

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Can the Military and the Profit Calculus Go Together in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 07, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Civil society, CORRUPTION, MIC, Oversight function, Profit calculus, TransparencyNo CommentsViews:
Can the Military and the Profit Calculus Go Together in Nigeria?

It will be very interesting to know what the military establishment thinks about the conclusion of this policy brief on the topic. It is not so much about whether the military establishment... Read more

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Managing Asiwaju’s Coming Overwriting of the Cartesian Bullshit to Morph Into Nigeria’s Most Powerful President Ever

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Academia, Cartesian bullshit, Civil society, IBB, Judiciary, Left politics, overnment of National Unity, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Managing Asiwaju’s Coming Overwriting of the Cartesian Bullshit to Morph Into Nigeria’s Most Powerful President Ever

By Adagbo Onoja The level of mental, institutional, infrastructural and social decay in Nigeria is of an emergency proportion. So much so that any person of goodwill must join in putting con... Read more

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Critically Celebrating With Angela Odah @ 50

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Okoho', Chima Ubani, Civil society, Prof Sophie Harman, Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Transition Monitoring GroupNo CommentsViews:
Critically Celebrating With Angela Odah @ 50

The civil society in Nigeria is, like the country itself, a study in diversity. It doesn’t matter if one takes diversity here in terms of the gamut of activities covered or the approac... Read more

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Civil Society and Democracy By Prof Akin Mabogunje

Posted By: adminon: August 06, 2022In: FlashbackTags: 'Triple transition', Civil society, DEMOCRACY, Modernising state, ParticipationNo CommentsViews:
Civil Society and Democracy By Prof Akin Mabogunje

Prof Akin Mabogunje who just passed on this week was a man of many parts. It will be a big debate to determine which of his academic works is the most fascinating or grounded. But there was... Read more

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